Keep Your Silver Shined
A week after their annual Valentine’s Day show, Devon Sproule and Paul Curreri sit side-by-side at Café Cubano, looking mostly at each other while they speak with me about
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Keep Your Silver Shined
Devon Sproule City Salvage Records/Waterbug
A week after their annual Valentine’s Day show, Devon Sproule and Paul Curreri sit side-by-side at Café Cubano, looking mostly at each other while they speak with me about
The Violet Hour
stage It’s April 1, 1919, and John Pace Seavering has a problem. This idealistic young member of the Lost Generation has used his share of the family fortune to set up a publishing firm in Manhattan (think James Laughlin of New Directions Press), and finds his office crammed with manuscripts. His less privileged Princeton classmate, […]
“Uninterrupted Flux: Hedda Sterne, A Retrospective”
art There’s a stereotype, an unfortunately potent one, that says artists do their best work before they’re 40, then enter a period of fading talent. When you walk into the Hedda Sterne retrospective, you joyfully confront an artist who utterly shatters that myth. While she’s at it, the now nonagenarian Sterne debunks the one about […]
Selling the Places29 plan
At Agnor Hurt Elementary, local citizens got their first crack at the Places29 Northern Urban Area Master Plan when they were split up into small groups to discuss the county’s grand design for the territory that stretches from Hydraulic Road clear up Route 29 past the airport. A county staffer—who for the evening became a […]
Red Dirt Alert!
This ugly-looking hole in the ground will someday (a year from now) grow up to be Pantops Park. Not in fact a park at all, Pantops Park will be home to another Virginia National Bank
Ostinato with Red Wizard and Horsefang
music The press release for the show at Outback Lodge declared that “this will be the closest thing to hanging out in the old Tokyo Rose basement you’ve felt in a while.” Since the Rose stopped hosting shows a few years ago, several venues have offered great alternatives, but none have provided a comparable atmosphere. […]
Crash into me!
There are 156 miles of roads in Charlottesville. Add about 87,000 licensed drivers to those twists and turns-housands of moving parts in a small spaceâphysics (and common sense) tells you that nothing good is going to come of it.
Red, yellow, green
Red Light: Stop! After trial runs in Northern Virginia and Virginia Beach, “photo-red” technology—a system of cameras designed to snag pictures of red light runners—seems poised to make drivers around the state think twice about arriving at busy intersections “fashionably late.” Virginia’s House of Delegates approved a preliminary version of the legislation on February 5 […]
Watching the cars go by
The Intelligent Transportation System Center is the strangest room of the Public Works building on Fourth Street NW. The exterior of the building suggests no particular purpose; same goes for the beige interior. Moreover, the ITSC is dark, the only sources of light coming from two walls holding eight monitors, each portraying a city intersection, […]
Charlottesville’s deadliest roads
Charlottesville registered no traffic fatalities in 2006, but eight people died on Albemarle County roads. The ages of those killed stretch from 17 to 84, but in five of these cases, the passenger killed was under 24. A few of the accidents yielded no proof of cause, but analyses of tire marks, car positions and […]